Concerning the adulteration of tea there seems to be considerable difference of opinion, some authorities maintaining that adulterationis common, while others maintain that it is very rare, indeed.
The abuse of such confidence cannot be too severely condemned, all the more so, that there is absolutely no legal remedy against the adulteration of disinfectants.
The law guards against adulteration of food, but it seems--I have been making inquiry into the matter--that no thought has ever been given by the legislature to the subject of disinfectants!
The adulteration of the milk, added to the wholesale cost, leaves an average profit of cent.
By means of tincture of iodine starch adulteration in compressed yeasts may be detected.
During this test adulteration with plaster of paris is readily detected, as it would be the first to settle out, and by carefully decanting the fluid, examination of the sediment would disclose plaster of paris.
Among the many other familiar examples of food substitution, sophistication, and adulteration there are some of demonstrable hygienic disadvantage and others whose chief demerit lies in simple deception.
I need refer only briefly to those notorious instances of adulteration in which chicory is added to coffee, or ground olive stones to pepper, or glucose to candy.
In the cities we lived entirely upon foreign products, and their adulteration had reached a most amazing limit of badness.
This form and use of this word as here used by Daniel, is rather a Persian adulteration than pure Hebrew, of which several instances may be found in some of the later books.
Cush is called Raamah: we think those who will examine the subject will find this term a mere alteration or adulteration of Naamah, as there are many others, a tedious explanation of which might not be excused at our hand.
This form of adulteration may be very easily detected by the use of strong methylic alcohol, in which the alcoholometer of Tralles or of Gay Lussac will indicate about 93½°.
In previous communications I have given processes for detecting the adulteration of cane-sugar by starch-sugar.
The adulteration of sugar-house sirups by starch glucose is still more extensively practiced than that of sugar, and a great portion of sirups sold by retailers in this market is adulterated with starch glucose.
This instrument, although very useful, is not reliable in every case, especially in detecting the adulteration of milk.
There are two other forms of competition still to examine: these are adulteration and advertisement.
He may balance the lowering of his price by resorting to adulteration or the use of inferior workmanship or material; or 4.
Any adulteration can be detected at once by the color.
Like every other commodity, it is liable to be counterfeited; and we know, after it has passed out of the hands of importers and manufacturers, adulteration has been practised to a wide extent.
It should be observed, however, that the mixing or adulteration of oils is never practised by the oil manufacturer.
To say that a system of adulteration is practised here, is a charge which cannot be substantiated by facts; and to suppose that the manufacturer would knowingly injure or damage his own business, is too absurd to require refutation.
Some is employed in the manufacture of alum; a good deal goes to Paris to be served up as the white sugar of confectionery, and it is hinted that not a little is employed in the adulteration of flour.
The whortleberry is a good deal used in the south of France for the adulteration and colouring of claret, whole truck-loads being imported from Germany.
It has long been known that the true Pinkroot was adulterated, but this adulteration was supposed to be caused by the admixture of Carolina phlox (Phlox Carolina L.
This adulteration or substitution probably accounts for the inertness which has sometimes been attributed to the true Pinkroot and which has caused it to fall into more or less disuse.
And let it be remembered, that none of them have been detected for any unlawful practices,[79] with regard to the processes of their manufacture, or the adulteration of their beer.
This article is very often subjected to one of the most reprehensible modes of adulteration ever devised.
Union Hall, of having in his possession a quantity of alum for the adulteration of bread, and fined in the penalty of 5l.
If the adulteration has been effected by means of clay, the obtained precipitate, on exposure to a red heat in the bowl of a common tobacco-pipe, acquires a brick hardness.
The adulteration of confitures by means of clay, may be detected by simply dissolving the comfits in a large quantity of boiling water.
Next to the bread we eat, there is no article that should be kept freer from adulteration than milk, and the formation of a Dairy Company, in April, 1882, was hailed as a boon by many.
In Michigan the law does not define any standard for adulteration or unadulteration.
But, with the exception of Massachusetts, where Mr. Sharpless points out clearly the reason why the law against adulterationis a dead letter, all the reports speak encouragingly.
In your State what officer is charged with enforcement of the provisions of its liquor statutes, forbidding adulteration of liquors exposed for sale as beverages?
Grosvenor, Dairy and Food Commissioner, says, "The Dairy and Food Commissioner of the State is charged with enforcement of the law relating to adulteration of liquors.
Is adulteration so defined as to include the mixing of liquor with water, or only with substances or liquids in themselves toxicants?
As you will see by the foregoing remarks, the provisions of the Massachusetts liquor law, so far as adulteration is concerned, are practically a dead letter.
In case of prosecution the fact of adulteration would have to be proved to the satisfaction of the jury by any competent evidence.
By the above test, after a little practice, so small an adulteration as one or two per cent.
The increase of competition has, during the past twenty years, led to the adulteration of leather.
It is true that the adulteration of the things we eat and drink is more important than the adulteration of things we wear.
Before industrialism had reached its present development the statutes enacted against adulteration were severe.
It must be admitted, however, that virtually everybody engaged in manufacture, production, and distribution is a partner in the deliberate adulteration of things for the purpose of cheating the public.
Wherever the temptation to adulterate is considerable and the consequence of adulteration to public health great, the community should not accept the risk that arises from competition except within the narrowest possible limits.
Of course, one principal reason why adulteration prevails is that it is impossible for the ordinary consumer to detect it.
Have we not had laws of this kind before, punishing adulteration in every way--by the pillory and tumbrel as well as by fines and imprisonment--and has any of them had any permanent effect in putting an end to adulteration?
For since the dawn of our present civilization, adulteration has been a constant and abominable evil.
An act to amend the laws of adulteration of food, drinks, and drugs, 1872.
Under early conditions foodstuffs or other goods were consumed if not by the producer, at least by his neighbors; and any adulteration or sham was a dangerous matter.
They do not see that blackmail is piracy, that embezzlement is theft, that speculation is gambling that deleteriousadulteration is murder.
